tinknevertalks asked:
4, 31, and 35 for the wip asks, please! š (If I’ve already sent in my request ignore this one – my brain is not co-operating today.)
4) Last sentence written?
I debated about this question because I havenāt written anything in a month, and what I was working on then is a redraft of an original novel and Iām not confident enough to share that. So I think I will skip (sorry) and instead use the random number to pick another question to answer for you. Which isā¦.
26) Google docs, word doc, or neither?
You are around my age I think? So does this question amuse you a bit too? I predate those options. Well maybe not Word but we didnāt have it until I was in high school. I started off with good old pen and paper. My grandparents had a computer (a BBC-B) and they let me play frogger on it sometimes but not work. My mums first computer was a Windows 3.1 which predates the taskbar start menu and all of that. That had a program on it called āMicrosoft Worksā which from google to shore up my failing memory looks like it was word/excel/publisher etc. all in one. So that was my first foray into digital.
But I digress because yes of course I went on to wordpad, and then I got Word 2003 (still havenāt upgraded btw) but then when I got an iPad which has no stinking USB socket, I couldnāt carry around my stick with my word files anymore to work on everywhere so then I jumped to google docs.
Buuuuuut I have recently jumped toā¦ something else. The problem with google docs is it is rubbish at large files (lags horribly), it doesnāt have a decent dark mode, it doesnāt have any integral backup options for changes, and I just donāt think it is really intended for 80k novels. I used it for years but it was really starting to frustrate me. Itās free which is why I tried to stick with it but I have moved to use NovelPad. By the name itās designed for novels. It is web based but with a good offline mode, backs up every minute automatically, you can split everything into scenes, the revision feature is my favourite (no more juggling multiple documents) and the dark mode is so good. Itās also not overly complicated like Scrivener (which I could never get on with). The only bad thing is itās a subscription. But as serious as I want to take my writing and with all the quality of life it offers I decided for me it was worth it.
31) Are you doing this instead of actually working on your wip?
Noā¦ well I suppose technically all āfreeā time could be used for writing. But itās 7:30am and I am going out this morning to buy a new mattress. I have had mine for 25 years and I am now waking up with backache everyday (no springs poking through but I can feel them grinding). But yeah I am terrible if I have appointments for not being able to focus (even more than I usually canāt haha).
35) Are you more likely to make grammatical errors or spelling errors?
Hmm. There are some words I just canāt spell (like guarantee thank you auto correct), and there are some words I spell so badly that spellcheck canāt fix it and I have to go āgoogle you are my only hopeā. But for the most part I can spell. Itās more automatic than thinking about it, I think if you used me to spell out words I would probably be worse haha. So maybe grammatical? Iām not too sure what comes under the heading of grammar. I donāt do any of the big things (I think/hope) but comma splicing probably, passive voice definitely etc. I donāt get that many wavy underlines either way to be honest.
Thanks for the ask ā¤ļø